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Ward Boundaries
The Blue Mountains City Council local ward boundaries have changed as a result of the recent Local Government elections on 13 September 2008.
The changes to local ward boundaries were decided by the Council at its meeting of 22 November 2005. The Local Government Act requires a Council to adjust its ward boundaries where the difference between electors in wards is greater than 10 per cent. The difference between the ward with the highest population, ie. Ward 2, and the ward with the lowest population, ie. Ward 4, at that time, was 18.52%. This means that the Council had a statutory obligation to adjust its ward boundaries.
The maps available for download (see right) show the current ward boundaries, including the changes detailed below.
Council looked at a number of options when making the ward boundary changes, including the following guiding principles:
- Avoiding splitting townships into different wards.
- That the adjustments coincide with whole Census Collection Districts (CCD's). These are the building blocks of Wards. They are small areas declared by the Australian statistician for the purpose of collecting data. The Blue Mountains is divided into 145 CCD's.
- Minimising the frequency of changes made to boundaries to reduce costs in implementing changes.
- Making use of the breaks in development between villages, reinforced through implementation of the LEP, as natural boundaries.
- Ward boundaries following prominent, preferably permanent, and distinguishable landmarks such as roads, railway lines, and rivers, and avoiding property, Lot, DP, Portion or Parish boundary descriptions (as emphasised by the Electoral Commissioner).
As a result the changes are:
- Residences in Census districts 1231108, 1231107, Pt. 1231109 and Pt. 1231105 in Warrimoo (1560) moving from Ward 3 to Ward 4.
- Residences in the Census districts Pt. 1230912, Pt. 1230913 and Pt. 1230905 in Faulconbridge (700) moving from Ward 2 to Ward 3.
The Ward Boundary changes, effective 13 September 2008, affect the following townships:
All of WARRIMOO currently in WARD 3 to be included in WARD 4 including all properties in the following streets:
- Albert Street, WARRIMOO
- Arthur Street, WARRIMOO
- Cross Street, WARRIMOO
- Edna Street, WARRIMOO
- Eley Hawkins Drive, WARRIMOO
- Florabella Street, WARRIMOO
- Great Western Highway, WARRIMOO
- Greens Road, WARRIMOO
- Gwen Cres, WARRIMOO
- Karabah Terrace, WARRIMOO
- Railway Parade, WARRIMOO
- Spurwood Road, WARRIMOO
- Terrymont Road, WARRIMOO
- The Avenue, WARRIMOO
- The Boulevard, WARRIMOO
- The Mall, WARRIMOO
- The Terrace, WARRIMOO
- Torwood Street, WARRIMOO
- Victoria Street, WARRIMOO
- Waratah Road, WARRIMOO
Parts of FAULCONBRIDGE and SPRINGWOOD currently in WARD 2 to be included in WARD 3 including properties in the following streets:
- Chapman Parade, FAULCONBRIDGE (odd No's 1-53)
- Churchill Street, SPRINGWOOD (even No's 2-16)
- Coomassie Avenue, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Cuddlepie Place, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Douglas Street, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Douglas Street, SPRINGWOOD (even No's 36-64 and odd No's 31-55)
- Garden Square, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Gazania Street, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Gibb Place, SPRINGWOOD
- Great Western Highway, FAULCONBRIDGE (even No's 444-484 and odd No's 429-485)
- Grose Road, FAULCONBRIDGE (odd No's 1-59)
- Highview Avenue, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Hunter Way, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Karen Place, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Moore Cres, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Parr Parade, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Plateau Road, SPRINGWOOD (even No's 2-10)
- Prunella Place, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Saggas Street, SPRINGWOOD
- Snugglepot Drive, FAULCONBRIDGE
- Statham Avenue, FAULCONBRIDGE